Finally, here’s the video report of Abies Electronicus,
shot in Brussels, BE, 2012.
technical info for da nerd:
4 Video Projectors 20k @1024*768
each projector was Space Scanned using MadMapper
Custom QC based software
26 LED rgb fixtures
DMX flashlights
DMX control over the existing facades
Lots of custom QC plugins
Running entirely off a single MacPro
Haha, it seems the controversy about our xmas-tree even went all the way to Russia.
For those interested in technical stuff,
we used MadMapper’s Space Scanner feature to produce a 1to1 pixel map of the projectors,
which simply allowed us to map during the day, safely knowing that the mapping will fit the tree.
Here are the resulting scans, shot at 1/30s or 1/60s depending on the ambiant lighting,
f2.8, iso 800, manual focus, Jpeg quality small (no Raw), using a Canon 5D mark II.
We used 4 projectors, so we produced 4 scans.
All the setup is almost complete.
The official opening is tomorrow 6PM.
Building the structure.
The project will run during all december, every day, in Brussels.
The final video report is out:
Under the snow, a nightly photo session. Image courtesy of Simon Deprez, the surfer-photographer.
3x Christies LX1500 (only 45000 lumen in total ,(), and all lights controlled by one single patch, aka _1024_LightController: fiddles an array of 14 RGB LED projectors, and 200 flashbulbs.
After 3 days in Guebwiller, France, we finally managed to get all our stuff working: beamers, LEDs, Flash lights and sound.
We’re making a contemporary XMas Tree, aka Abies Electronicus, and a video mapping on a church. Here a two pictures of the tree, lit by an array of LED devices, live controlled from QC. More to come soon, as the opening night is next sunday.
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